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Ask HN: Intentionally inject errors into NFS to test user client
4 points by harnhua 11y ago|0 comments
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by harnhua 12y ago
50 minutes each way on the train + 10 minutes by bus, in Singapore. Hence, 50-60 minutes each way is normal to me. I'm guessing that you drive, and have to focus on traffic, but do you listen to audiobooks and stuff along the way? Crow
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Ask HN: Share your tough FPGA design to improve design tools?
4 points by harnhua 12y ago|0 comments
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by harnhua 14y ago
I work on Tcl, Perl and shell scripting for Windows and Linux environments, to automate semiconductor chip design over networks. It's part electrical engineering (my background), part OS-level scripting, part data-parsing, and I'm enjoying
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by harnhua 14y ago
For (1), from a young company's perspective, I've found it much easier to communicate and steer in the same direction when a teammate on a project is in the same room. As another person pointed out, face-to-face collaboration is vital at th
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by harnhua 14y ago
Often I need to create user guides and demo videos for products, and the screen capture features help a lot. To capture: - the entire desktop: Command-Shift-3. (Automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop) - part of the desktop: Com
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by harnhua 15y ago
For me it was more of seeing an end-user need not being served and slowly mulling over ways to serve that need, progressing to building a prototype on my own time, finding an equally-motivated co-founder, before finally going full-time. The
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by harnhua 16y ago
Looking for a junior Software Engineer - Java in Singapore. (Sorry, must be located in Singapore) The team at Plunify is seeking a talented and enthusiastic Java developer to help build a cloud computing platform. Work with the latest Web t
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by harnhua 16y ago
Some compiles take a few hours so I have no choice but to jot down whatever state the current project is in and switch context to some other project...
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by harnhua 16y ago
I'm in a similar situation, and am struggling with the same question. From some desktop research and talking to investors/other startups, it seems like "0.1% - 2% of post-Series A stock" is a reasonable range depending on the results an adv
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by harnhua 16y ago
(Disclaimer: I was born in Singapore, educated in the US and lived in the SF bay area for a while. Among other things, the overseas experience made me question a lot of things about Singapore and the US) I beg to differ with the article and
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by harnhua 16y ago
Hmm... I guess I don't see any part of the original sentence that implies what you just wrote.
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by harnhua 16y ago
I'm guessing that the speed, convenience and ease of abstraction that a higher-level language like C++ or Java offers is a pull-factor for CS instructors. Apart from systems-level programming classes, of course. Someone mentioned "Why C whe
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by harnhua 16y ago
Thank you! I hope my reply was somewhat helpful in terms of answering your questions. Always glad to meet other hardware folks here on HN.
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by harnhua 16y ago
Thank you! We're in beta and are still figuring out the pricing as we go along. Absolutely agree that cost, among other things, stands in the way of many independent developers.
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by harnhua 16y ago
I'm currently working on an FPGA-related startup, not manufacturing hardware but developing an online FPGA development platform ( http://www.plunify.com ). Octopart is a YC-funded search engine for electronic parts. One reason why I'm listi
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by harnhua 16y ago
Always challenge yourself and make little, concrete steps towards achieving bigger goals. I think it also depends on whether your confidence comes from within or without. For example, does one need external praise for something one has done
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by harnhua 16y ago
We make a design platform for engineers, and as both founders have technical backgrounds, we talked with around 30-40 engineers (presumably our target customers) about our product before starting to code. Turns out, feedback from friends wa
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by harnhua 16y ago
A good run in the evening and making a point not to think about code/sales/marketing 1-2 hours before sleep seem to work well for me. The cold shower trick and its physiological effects sound really interesting. I always take cold showers a
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by harnhua 16y ago
Went full-time last August to work on an FPGA test/design tool http://www.plunify.com Probably sounds very focused ;) but there are so many things that can be done in this space. Feel free to message me at harnhua (at) gmail (dot) com
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by harnhua 16y ago
As I was trained in Verilog and know little about VHDL, to be honest, I'm not quite sure why "code" is inappropriate. But thinking about your(blasdel's and gte910h's) comments, I'm beginning to see how error-checking can and should be diffe
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by harnhua 16y ago
I haven't had much luck reaching out to developers via cold email either. Face-to-face seems to work best. Even phonecalls result in most people activating their anti-sales shields. As other posters mentioned, a brief, straight-to-the-point
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by harnhua 16y ago
Are there industry seminars or travel tradeshows in your area where the airlines come out to interact? Perhaps small / budget airlines are good targets to start with. If you can reach out to their customers via a forum, that might indirectl
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by harnhua 16y ago
Oooo, an intelligent parser of FPGA code would be lovely. The parallel nature of hardware code presents very interesting challenges for such a parser, I think. Recently I came across a company called www.sigasi.com that promised lovely thin
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by harnhua 16y ago
Would that diminish the value of our service if it only runs on companies' internal servers and not enjoy benefits in parallelism that we can give them? I guess if they are too worried about IP, offering the downloadable service is perhaps
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by harnhua 16y ago
No worries, please criticize as much as you like--that's how we can improve. In fact, you've already convinced us to do the spreadsheet export thing. I see your point there. The Flash blob :) has a maximum width/height of 2880 pixels, I rea
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by harnhua 16y ago
Hmm... seems true, for example, in Japan we found that inter-company relationships also matter a lot in FPGA decisions. Scalable support, alas, would be hard for a startup like us to provide. We are working on adding dev kit details for hob
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by harnhua 16y ago
Before I started working on this webapp, I tried running the FPGA tools on Mac OS X without much success. That was in the days of PowerPC Macs though. Getting the necessary libraries to play nicely was a great pain. After Virtualbox came ou
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by harnhua 16y ago
The IP issue is probably the top question from companies we talk to. It may very well be the killer for this webapp, and we don't have a good technical solution at the moment. However much we encrypt, the customer's IP is going to sent to o
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by harnhua 16y ago
Thanks, that picture has been updated with a link to the sample report page. Are you accessing it from an iPhone by any chance? ;)

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